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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MechanicalMethod who wrote (3809)	5/16/2001 12:06:44 AM
From: Paul Beattie	Respond to of 4056

Thanks for your gentle feedback. Anyway, there's useful fodder for discussion here. Note that MSWin's Timeseries moving average is quite different than the sma in your answer. Yes, it's a very long period, but in a strongly trending stock, it holds the trend nicely. Try backtesting it. If you want to look at shorter trends, perhaps use a displaced MA, like Ref(Mov(C,3,e),-3). The problem with using -only- MAs for signaling is that you get whipsawed when price is not trending. Multiple MAs are good at highlighting areas of price compression. 9ema>13ema>21ema shows an uptrend visually in a nice way, and often gives insights into strength of support based on pullbacks above but near 13ema or 21ema. What do you like to use?